No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.